sailorlite

Just came home with this 991.1 Carrera S and find that the numbers and needles on the tach and speedo are difficult to see, especially when wearing sunglasses. Don't recall this on earlier Porsches. Is there a setting for dash instrument illumination?
That big tach should be way more visible, especially its needle, in my opinion.
Otherwise this car is fantastic! (That's my other opinion).
(Just noticed that this post is displaying my now sold 997 - will update soon).

straka

Polarized sunglasses can reduce the brightness of some displays.

VII7

The analog tach??
There is no illumination of tach during the day (headlights off)
Is your vision otherwise ok?
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Maybe PO was one of those blackout everything folk

MPawelek

Yes, There is a setting to change the brightness….

sailorlite

I plan to breakout the owner's manual soon, but meanwhile where is that setting to change the brightness?
My vision's generally pretty good, and my sunglasses are non-polarized.

Gygeneral

I find the same thing, one of my issues with the car, I looked in the manual and did no see anything that would help. Maybe someone here found a solution

VII7

cbredesen

I find the analog gauges very difficult to see during the day in my 991.2. I keep an eye on the digital speedo and I can kinda see the tach needle move but my car's a PDK so I don't even watch that too much. My windows are tinted and I'm sure that's got something to do with it but I will say, the gauges are really shadowed most of the time. My 997 had white gauge faces which were better during the day but positively awful at dusk when the cluster is illuminated but there's still ambient light.

Porsche_nuts

Here is **** to control the brightness of the gauge. NOTE: You will see the brightness change with headlights on. There is no brightness adjustment without headlights being turned on.

straka

I've never figured out the reason for the non daylight illumination of the tach. Doesn't it exist back through a number of generations? It was suggested in a post on an earlier thread that it's to remind you that your headlights are off when it gets dark. I can't imagine Porsche making that decision and now with the auto light function that's irrelevant. When sunlight reflects off the tach lens at a certain angle it makes the tach impossible to read. So frustrating on a performance car. Too bad it can't be programed to illuminate like the other gauges. Obviously there is the rheostat control to control the brightness of the illuminated gauges on the dash.

tx-911

You can activate the lights for insturment cluster to be on during the daytime (without having to turn on the light switch) via PIWIS by coding the color of the dials as being "white", I've done this and it helps quite a bit, but the needle does not light up.

jsurf44

Only the tachs on the turbos are backlit not may know this but I have seen this on the Macan, Cayenne, Boxster and Carrera - Turbo versions are backlit and look slightly different thicker white lines I believe